Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi

Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslim demonstrators topple a freight container, which police had used to block a street during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Lahore on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslim demonstrators topple a freight container, which police had used to block a street during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Lahore on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

A Pakistani Muslim demonstrator throws a stone as a policeman aims a shotgun during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Karachi on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslim demonstrators torch an American flag during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Karachi on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

People rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Minority Pakistani Christians shout slogans as they march during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Karachi on September 20, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

A Pakistani policeman fires a teargas shell towards demonstrators during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Karachi on September 21, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Afghan demonstrators pour fuel as they prepare to torch a caricature of US President Barack Obama during a protest in Kabul, Sept. 16, 2012. Hundreds of students poured into the streets of Kabul shouting anti-US slogans, police said. The protesters, mostly students from Kabul University, shouted "death to America" as they blocked a road near their compound.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Shiite Muslim protesters throw stones toward the police as they attempt to reach the US consulate during a rally in Karachi, Sept. 16, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Flames rises from a police van during a protest rally organized by Pakistan Shiite Muslims in Karachi, Sept. 16, 2012. A total of 17 people have died in the spreading violence, including four Americans killed in Benghazi, 11 protesters who died as police battled to defend US missions from mobs in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen, and the two US soldiers in Afghanistan.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslims hold banners and shout anti-US slogans during a rally, Sept. 16, 2012 in Karachi. At least eight people were injured after protestors clashed with police outside the US consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, officials said.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Indonesian protesters hurl rocks during a protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta, Sept. 17, 2012. Protesters hurled petrol bombs and clashed with Indonesian police outside the US Embassy in Jakarta as demonstrations in the world's most populous Muslim nation turned violent.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Indonesian Muslim protesters rally towards the US embassy during a protest in Jakarta, Sept. 17, 2012. Protesters hurled petrol bombs and clashed with Indonesian police outside the US Embassy in Jakarta as demonstrations in the world's most populous Muslim nation turned violent.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Muslim protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 17, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani men chant slogans during a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan, Sept. 17, 2012. Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against an anti-Islam film torched a press club and a government building in northwest Pakistan, sparking clashes with police that left at least one person dead.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Police arrest a protestor demonstrating in Sydney, Australia, Sept. 16, 2012. More than 100 policemen have formed a ring around throngs of protesters in Hyde Park, who are carrying banners bearing slogans like "Behead all those who insult the Prophet."

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Egyptian protesters gather around a burning vehicle in downtown Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, before police cleared the area after days of protests against a film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Khost, south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. A few hundred of university students protested against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, in Khost, shouting "death to America."

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Indian protesters shout slogans against the U.S., during a protest in Chennai, India, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The protest was against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims", that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslims torch a US flag during a protest against an anti-Islam movie in Karachi on September 15, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Pakistani Muslims burn a US flag during a protest rally against an anti-Islam movie in Islamabad on September 15, 2012. The Pakistani Taliban on September 15 issued a call to young Muslims worldwide and within the country to rise up against an anti-Islam movie.

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Protests Spread Across Middle East

Police confront a group of protestors demonstrating against an anti-Islam video in Sydney, 15 September 2012. More than 100 police have formed a ring around throngs of protesters in Hyde Park, who are carrying banners bearing slogans like 'Behead all those who insult the Prophet'.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades burn the U.S. flag during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Around 150 members of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chanted " Obama, Obama, we are all Osama."

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

A Palestinian Salafist shouts slogans as protesters burn a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama along with Israeli and U.S. flags during a demonstration in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.

Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Protests Spread Across the Middle East

A Yemeni protester runs after setting fire at a street leading to the US embassy during a protest in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 14, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Yemeni protesters burn a US flag during a demonstration at a street leading to the US embassy in Sanaa, Sept. 14, 2012. Yemeni security forces fired warning shots, tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters headed for the US embassy, a day after similar confrontations left four dead.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Tunisian protesters break into the US embassy in Tunis during a protest, Sept. 14, 2012. The demonstrators, acting aggressively, managed to clamber over one of the walls round the mission, near the car park where several vehicles had been set ablaze, the photographer said.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Yemeni riot policemen stand guard during a demonstration at a crossroad leading to the US embassy in Sanaa, Sept. 14, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Demonstrators throw stones during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, as police respond with tear gas, Sept. 14, 2012.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Lebanese protesters attack American fast food restaurants after Friday prayers in the northeastern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sept. 14, 2012. According to security officials no one was hurt in the attack.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

Yemeni protesters shout slogans during a demonstration at a street leading to the US embassy in Sanaa, Sept. 14, 2012. Yemeni security forces fired warning shots, tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters headed for the US embassy, a day after similar confrontations left four dead.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

A Sudanese demonstrator burns a German flag as others shout slogans after torching the German embassy in Khartoum during a protest, Sept. 14, 2012. Around 5,000 protesters in the Sudanese capital stormed the embassies of Britain and Germany, which was torched and badly damaged.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

A Moroccan Salafist demonstrator tears down a US flag with his teeth during a protest outside a mosque in the impoverished Rahma neighborhood of Sale, Sept. 14, 2012. Hundreds of Salafists burned US flags in Morocco after Friday prayers.

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Protests Spread Across the Middle East

An Indian protester kicks at a graffiti of the American flag on a wall of the U.S. Consulate during a protest in Chennai, India, Sept. 14, 2012.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Yemeni protestors climb the gate of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film "The Innocence of Muslims" deemed blasphemous and Islamophobic.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Yemeni protesters break a window of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 13, 2012.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

A Yemeni protester waves a flag bearing Islamic calligraphy outside the gate of the US embassy in Sanaa during a protest over a film mocking Islam, Sept. 13, 2012.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Egyptian protesters walk toward police lines during clashes near the United States Embassy and Cairo's Tahrir Square, Sept. 13, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. At least 13 people have been injured, including 10 riot police, in clashes between protesters and security forces overnight.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Egyptian protesters run from a cloud of tear gas fired by riot police during clashes near the United States Embassy and Cairo's Tahrir Square, Sept. 13, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. At least 13 people have been injured, including 10 riot police, in clashes between protesters and security forces overnight.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

An Egyptian protester holds tear gas canisters fired during clashes between Egyptian police and protesters in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 13, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

A policeman stands in front of a police car set on fire by protesters in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, during clashes between protesters and police early, Sept. 13, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Iranian demonstrators burn the US flag during a protest against a film mocking Islam, Sept. 13, 2012 near the Swiss embassy in Tehran. Up to 500 people protested in Tehran over the anti-Islam film made in the United States.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement, burn the Israeli and the US flags during a protest denouncing a film deemed offensive to Islam, Sept. 13, 2012 in the central Iraqi city of Kut.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

Chris Stevens, who was elevated to ambassador, was killed on Sept. 11, 2012 by militants who stormed the Benghazi consulate in Libya. Stevens "will be remembered as a hero by many nations," his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said this morning. "He risked his life to stop a tyrant then gave his life trying to help build a better Libya. The world needs more Chris Stevenses."

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, is pictured with Ambassador Chris Stevens in this undated photo made from a U.S. State Department video.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

U.S. envoy Chris Stevens, center, accompanied by British envoy Christopher Prentice, left, speaks to Council member for Misrata Suleiman Fortia, right, at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya, in this April 11, 2011 file photo.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

A burnt car is seen after an attack on the U.S. Consulate by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 12, 2012. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Soot and debris spills out of the U.S. Consulate after an attack by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 12, 2012. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed during the protest.

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Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Libya, Embassy in Cairo

Muslims pray outside the United States embassy in Tunis on Sept.12, 2012 and demand the closure of the embassy. The American embassies in Algeria and Tunisia warned of more protests Wednesday, following attacks by protesters in neighboring Libya in which the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff were killed.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

An man waves his rifle as buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

A vehicle, right, and surrounding buildings burn after they were set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

A vehicle is engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, LIbya, Sept. 11, 2012.

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Protesters in Libya Set Fire to U.S. Consulate

Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Sept. 11, 2012.